Children's use of subtraction by addition on large single-digit subtractions

Educational Studies in Mathematics

Volumn 79, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 335-349

  Peters, Greet ^a   de Smedt, Bert ^a   Torbeyns, Joke ^a,b   Ghesquière, Pol ^a   Verschaffel, Lieven ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b GROEP T Leuven Education College   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Single digit subtraction; Strategy change; Strategy choice; Strategy use; Subtraction by addition

Indexed keywords

EID: 84857050593     PISSN: 00131954     EISSN: 15730816     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10649-011-9308-3     Document Type: Article

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